Heathrow Airport

And the award for best stalling tactic goes to . . . a coalition of environmentalists, scientists and actors -- including two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson -- who are determined to scupper plans by the British government to build a new runway for Heathrow Airport. The motley crew has bought a small plot, about an acre in size, in the heart of the development area where an extra runway would be situated.

Heathrow has always been the bad boy of European airports, an international crossroads that periodically morphs into a black hole of chaos and delay with no more provocation than a good English fog. Even by Heathrow's standards, though, the debut of the long-awaited Terminal 5 -- the spacious, $8.

British police arrested a fifth suspect Sunday in their frantic nationwide manhunt for the perpetrators of failed bomb attacks in central London and at the Glasgow international airport. Authorities also carefully searched a suspicious vehicle outside the Scottish hospital where they had taken one of the Glasgow suspects, who suffered severe burns when he drove a Jeep Cherokee into the glass entrance to the main airport terminal Saturday.

sipson, england -- Heathrow is the granddaddy of European airport nightmares, legendary for its long lines and lost luggage. But the hundreds of protesters who descended on the airport's administrative headquarters Sunday weren't furious passengers demanding better service, but climate change activists seeking to block expansion of the beleaguered facility.

london -- Misrouted bags. Missed flights. Mystifying security rules. Welcome to your air travel nightmare: London's Heathrow Airport. For visitors passing through Europe's biggest airline hub, the summer of 2007 has been one big meltdown -- and it's not over yet. This weekend will bring Heathrow's most recent in a series of challenges as crowds take off for Britain's August bank holiday and Americans head home from vacation before Labor Day, the unofficial end of the season.

Is relief in sight for harried fliers at Europe's biggest airport? Four months before Heathrow's Terminal 5 is to open, officials gave media a sneak peak at the futuristic facility, which they hope will dispel images of weary crowds searching for lost bags and waiting for late fights.

Snoop Dogg was released on bail Thursday after a fracas over access to a first-class lounge at England's Heathrow Airport, which injured seven police officers, his lawyer said. The 34-year-old rapper, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, was driven away from the airport's police station, police said. They did not give details of five men arrested with him.

One of the world's busiest airports was thrown into chaos Thursday when a terrorism alert virtually shut down Heathrow, creating human gridlock with bewildered vacationers pushing mountains of luggage. Officials at the airport said the call came about 2 a.m. that police had made arrests in connection with a suspected plan to blow up several U.S.-bound aircraft in midair.

A third day of security-related backups worsened delays Saturday at Heathrow Airport, where passengers waited for hours in tents outside terminals before being allowed to check in. Many flights departed as some of their passengers remained stranded in line. After canceling 12 flights to the U.S.

Re "Terror Attacks Were 'Very Near,' " Aug. 11 Look what we have done. Osama bin Laden is still on the loose. Terrorist training camps in Afghanistan are just deeper underground. Huge numbers of terrorists in Iraq have been unleashed to bring forth murder and destruction. Hezbollah and Hamas are more active and bolder today than they were five years ago. Iran threatens and thumbs its nose at us. Another miss just occurred involving Heathrow Airport. The truth of the matter is the war on terrorism just is not working in spite of President Bush's crowing.